Home Monitoring is offered by many professional security companies as a service to complement their professionally installed alarm systems and provide emergency help for the elderly or disabled. For a monthly subscription charge a station will provide 24/7 attention to your safety and security concerns and dispatch appropriate response units if nessecary.

Home Monitoring can also be done independantly over the internet with software. It is a complete protection system for your home that alerts you to potential emergencies - wherever you are. Wireless sensors link to an Internet monitoring service. This sends alerts via fixed line phone, text message and email to you and a list of nominated contacts if there is a threat to your home. Less expensive than 3rd party monitoring, it's main drawback is the lack of manned respone.